Iraq's interior minister has offered to resign, part of the political fallout from Sunday's devastating attack in Baghdad.
Mohammed Ghabban Tuesday handed over authority to his deputy until the offer is considered by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, himself the target of public rage after a suicide truck bombing killed at least 175 people.
Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying they were targeting Shi'ites.
The attack came near the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a time when U.N. envoy for Iraq Jan Kubis had hoped there would be a lull in violence. U.N. Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein also deplored the loss of innocent lives and condemned, what he called, this latest "horrendous atrocity" by the extremist Sunni group Islamic State.